Green Unconference (by sarah)
Today I attended the first ever Green Unconference in Long Ashton near Bristol, organised by Daniel Lewis. It was an amazing setting with brilliant speakers - I only wish more of the people I'd invited had turned up but apparently most of them hadn't seen the FaceBook invite until the event was actually taking place 🙁
I have come away saddened but optermistic and re-energised about the stuff I do to try and be a bit more friendly to the planet. Everything from government policies to how to garden to how to save/use waste food to feed those who are increasingly needing to use the food banks in this country was disguessed. I myself did an Upcycling and Junk Art workshop - complete with a mini talk and slides.
It was the most gorgous setting for a workshop
The girls were about as well behaved as I think I could realistically expect :/ I think Jeany eat most of the buffet before we officially had stopped for lunch!
I'm glad that people are taking on board that the average family can not afford or percieves at the least that they cannot afford organic food and that steps are being taken towards sorting this out. I wish I had managed to catch a few more of the talks but they clashed with my workshop and we had to leave early due to having triple booked ourselves for the day :/
I am going to attempt write up a few more of my junk art and upcycling projects. In making the slide show I realised I had a lot of material which I may try to collect together into at min an ebook.
(There will be a follow up post or two of the fantastic photos I got of bits of the church though I forgot to take one from outside 🙁 )
And talking of e-books don't forget to download your copy of The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry before midnight on the 31st of October! Click the image below for your free PDF.
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Sat 27th Oct 2012 11:02 pm
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By Neil Turp, Fri 9th Nov 2012 @ 9:10 am
Glad you liked the setting. In the church we are trying to get the message across that we are all custodians of this little ball of rock, whether you think it was made by a supreme being or not. It was a great day and even more encouraging than I expected, to hear such a wide range of ideas and thoughts. Thanks to everyone who came and everyone who spoke.